I am very pleased to see racecourse attendance on the up for a third year in a row and to break the previous record is fantastic," Stephen Atkin, the chief executive of the Racecourse Association, said on Tuesday."

"We have a rich talent pool at all entities, and part of our renewed focus will be to effectively tap into that talent to ensure SkyWest Inc. continues to create the best value in the business," said Mr. Atkin.

Tim Atkin , a U.K. wine critic, describes the £2 million price tag often put on the government's collection as "fanciful," saying: "I think the government should hang on to the good wines, most of which were bought comparatively cheaply, and pour the rest down the nearest Whitehall drain."

RBC Capital Markets analyst Jonathan Atkin estimates a 0.20 percentage point drop in Sprint's churn, the rate at which customers disconnect, combined with new users signing up because of the iPhone, would actually cut Sprint's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, by $493 million in 2012.